Command & Conquer Economy: You have to chop wood and mine for gold and gems in order to fund your war effort.
The Beasts can magically convert gems into a spell that regenerates your troops.
Cast from Money: The other way of healing Beast units, besides ritually sacrificing a unit.
Carry a Big Stick: Ogres, who club multiple units at once.
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The Boron, which provide the meat for The Beast army, are really just glorified cows.
Blade on a Stick: Empire Pikemen hostile neutral Goblin Lancers.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: The basic units of The Fallen army are all examples of this.
Big Bad Duumvirate: Princess Domina and the Void Walkers.
ARMIES OF EXIGO EMPIRE ALRIC UPGRADE
The Berserker: The upgrade for The Beasts' Warriors is referred to as such, and more than lives up to the name.
Humanoid, vaguely Orc-like beings with a tribal society and a fondness for brute force.
Beast Man: The Beastmen who form the core of The Beast armies.
Bears Are Bad News: The Elven Dryad can summon a Dire Bear to do her fighting for her.
Beard of Barbarism: The Beastmen who serve as the bulk of The Beast armies (Minions, Warriors, Berserkers, Manticore Riders) have these.
The race is on to see who will dominate the future of the world of Noran.and who will be removed from play altogether. Hoping to take advantage of the discord between The Empire and The Beasts, The Fallen-an alliance of Deep Elves, extradimensional invaders, and big bugs-have come out of hiding and seek to overrun the world. In the meantime, a new threat has emerged, crawling out from the bowels of the earth. The Empire has only recently begun to rebuild itself while The Beasts, disunited and fractious, have slowly reunited under the leadership of Tyron Son of Gral, a battered war veteran who wishes to recreate the confederation of tribes that existed during The Rage, and exterminate the Humans, Elves, and Gnomes who humiliated his clansmen. Seven decades later, the wounds have yet to fully heal. Hordes of Beastmen and their allies poured into the Human, Elf, and Gnome-run Empire, nearly destroying it, and crippling their own forces in the process. Seventy years before the game's opening, a longstanding peace was shattered by an event that came to be known as The Rage.